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Simulation of Steam Methane Reforming in a Membrane Reactor with a Nickel Catalyst and a Palladium Alloy Foil

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A model of steam methane reforming in a catalytic reactor has been developed the working part of which is two cylindrical chambers separated by a membranous wall. The upper chamber is evacuated while the lower one is maintained at atmospheric pressure. With a uniform supply of raw materials along the outer perimeter of the lower chamber, the problem is reduced to finding the average flows of CH4, H2O, CO2, CO, and H2 from the solution of a system of five nonlinear ordinary differential equations of the first order. The calculations were carried out for a Pd–6% Ru membrane in the temperature range of 673 K < T < 973 K at a steam/methane inlet flow ratio of 3 and a feed rate of 1800–9600 L/h. As a result of comparing the calculations with experimental data, a theoretical substantiation of the main regularities of the process observed in practice was obtained.

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    V. N. Babak, L. P. Didenko, Yu. P. Kvurt, L. A. Sementsova & S. E. Zakiev

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Babak, V.N., Didenko, L.P., Kvurt, Y.P. et al. Simulation of Steam Methane Reforming in a Membrane Reactor with a Nickel Catalyst and a Palladium Alloy Foil. Theor Found Chem Eng 55, 390–402 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040579521030027

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